Breitbart ‘More (Politically) Powerful Media Institution’ Than Fox News

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by Tony Lee
11 Sep 2017

NBC’s John Heilemann: Breitbart ‘More Powerful Media Institution’ Than Fox News

NBC and MSNBC contributor John Heilemann told Chris Matthews on Monday that Breitbart News is more powerful and influential than Fox News when it comes to influencing elections.

“Breitbart is a more powerful media institution and a more powerful media institution on the right than Fox News,” he said on Hardball.

Heilemann added that “for the last 20 years, if Fox News decided to get behind a candidate, that was trouble for the incumbent.” But that is not the case today because, according to Heilemann, “if Steve Bannon decides to train all of Breitbart’s fire on an incumbent Republican … you’re going to have a vulnerable incumbent.”

Matthews and his panel were discussing a Politico report that indicated Bannon is planning to back challengers to establishment Republican Sens. Dean Heller (R-NV), Bob Corker (R-TN), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) in addition to Luther Strange (R-AL).

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/09/11/nbcs-john-heilemann-breitbart-powerful-media-institution-fox-news/

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Rush Limbaugh: Heartland Viewers Say Fox News ‘Not Considered The Conservative Network That It Used to Be’


Limbaugh said he travels to Missouri for Christmas and the holidays and goes on golf trips all over the country and, “I’m here to tell you Fox News is not considered the conservative network that is used to be.”

“That’s what they think it is,” he said the day after Fox News mocked and taunted GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in a press release and compelled him to skip Thursday’s debate.

But Limbaugh said that, “You go out to the heartland of this country, and it’s not so much.”

He blasted the mainstream media who view “everything through their their own prism of being in the Northeast and part of the liberal power structure that determines everything–social, political structure in that part of the country”—for thinking that Fox News is “just embarrassing” and “so right wing” when so many people in Middle America realize that Fox is moving more to the center. He said the mainstream media’s false perception of Fox News is “more evidence of the media being out of touch and not really knowing what people say,” especially in Iowa.

Limbaugh blasted the divide between elected officials/media elite and regular Americans and cited immigration as one of the main points of division.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/01/27/2876958/

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Rush: 'Quite Telling' Fox Didn't Want Me to Criticize Immigration Reform

“Now I told the people at Fox that I wanted to talk about this today three or four times and they wouldn’t do it,” Limbaugh said on his show after his appearance. “They were not interested in bringing this subject up. I wanted to talk about this in relationship to the current state of the Republican party and they wouldn’t do it.”

Limbaugh said he “had to bring it up myself to whatever extent I did, and that by the way, is quite telling to me.”

Limbaugh did indeed manage to get in some comments about immigration on the show, saying, “Republicans are sitting around twiddling their thumbs worried about immigration and whether the Hispanics like them or not and being skunked on issue after issue after issue.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2013/07/03/rush-limbaugh-quite-telling-fox-news-didn-t-want-me-to-talk-about-opposition-to-immigration-reform/